21 posts tagged with "docusaurus"

This is a follow up to my "How I ruined my SEO" post. That was about how my site stopped ranking in Google's search results around October 2022. This post is about how Growtika and I worked together to fix it.

As we'll see, the art of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is a mysterious one. We made a number of changes that we believe helped. All told, my site spent about a year out in the cold - barely surfacing in search results. But in October 2023 it started ranking again. And it's been ranking ever since.

I put that down to the assistance rendered by Growtika. What was the nature of that assistance? I'll tell you. This post is a biggie; so buckle up!

Docusaurus v3 is on the way. One of the big changes that is coming with Docusaurus 3 is MDX 3. My blog has been built with Docusaurus 2 and I have a number of rehype plugins that I use to improve the experience of the blog. These include:

• a plugin to improve Core Web Vitals with fetchpriority / lazy loading
• a plugin to serving Docusaurus images with Cloudinary

I wanted to migrate these plugins to Docusaurus 3. This post is about how I did that - and if you've got a rehype plugin it could probably provide some guidance on the changes you'd need to make.

I've written previously about using Structured Data with React. This post goes a little further and talks about how to use Structured Data with Docusaurus and MDX. More specifically it looks at how to create a component that both renders FAQs into a page, and the same information as Structured Data.

By default, Docusaurus blogs don't add breadcrumb Structured Data to their blog posts. It's not hard to make it happen though; this post shows how to add it using the JSON-LD format.

A new API landed in Docusaurus 2.3.0 - it's called createFeedItems. It's a great API that allows you to tweak the Atom / RSS / JSON feeds for your blog. This post shows how to use it with the git commit date.

This post builds upon a technique we've previously used to drive the lastmod properties of our sitemap. You can read about driving lastmod from git commit here.

By using fetchpriority on your Largest Contentful Paint you can improve your Core Web Vitals. This post implements that with Docusaurus v2. There is a follow on post that details migrating this plugin to Docusaurus v3.

Cloudinary offers an image CDN which can improve performance of your site. This post details how to get Docusaurus v2 to use Cloudinary to serve optimised images. There is a follow on post that details migrating this plugin to Docusaurus v3.

The dev.to API provides a way to cross post your Docusaurus blogs to dev.to. This post describes how to do that with TypeScript, Node.js and the dev.to API.

Custom font usage can introduce cumulative layout shift (or "jank") to your website. This post shows how to use fontaine to reduce this with Docusaurus sites.

This post demonstrates enriching an XML sitemap with lastmod timestamps based on git commits. The sitemap being enriched in this post was generated automatically by Docusaurus. The techniques used are predicated on the way Docusaurus works; in that it is file based. You could easily use this technique for another file based website solution; but you would need tweaks to target the relevant files you would use to drive your lastmod.

If you're interested in applying the same technique to your RSS / Atom / JSON feeds in Docusaurus, you may find this post interesting.

This post demonstrates reading and writing XML in Node.js using fast-xml-parser. We'll use the Docusauruses XML sitemap as an example.

This post demonstrates how to speed up your Docusaurus build by using SWC and the swc-loader for webpack.

Azure Static Web Apps presently fixes to Node.js 14 when building. If you require a different version of Node to build, this can be a problem. This post outlines a workaround.

Lighthouse is a tremendous tool for auditing the performance and usability of websites. Rather than having to perform these audits manually, it's helpful to be able to plug it into your CI pipeline. This post illustrates how to integrate Lighthouse into a GitHub Actions workflow for an Azure Static Web App, and report findings directly in pull requests that are raised.

Jamstack sites have taken the world by storm. There's currently fierce competition between offerings like Netlify and Cloudflare. A new player in this space is Azure Static Web Apps. This post will look at what working with SWAs is like and will demonstrate deploying one using GitHub Actions.

If you'd like to improve the performance of a Docusaurus website by implementing native lazy-loading of images, you can. This post shows you how you too can have <img loading="lazy" on your images by writing a Rehype plugin.

When we're using custom fonts in our websites, it's good practice to preload the fonts to minimise the flash of unstyled text. This post shows how to achieve this with Docusaurus.

Google Discover is a way that people can find your content. To make your content more attractive, Google encourage using high quality images which are enabled by setting the max-image-preview:large meta tag. This post shows you how to achieve that with Docusaurus.

Docusaurus doesn't ship with "blog archive" functionality. By which I mean, something that allows you to look at an overview of your historic blog posts. It turns out it is fairly straightforward to implement your own. This post does just that.

Updated 2021-09-01​

As of v2.0.0-beta.6, Docusauras does ship with blog archive functionality that lives at the archive route. This is down to the work of Gabriel Csapo in this PR.

If you'd like to know how to build your own, read on... But you may not need to!

My blog lived happily on Blogger for the past decade. It's now built with Docusaurus and hosted on GitHub Pages. To understand the why, read my last post. This post serves purely to share details of feed updates for RSS / Atom subscribers.